Re: The Jewish Media Conspiracy


1MAN4ALL wrote:
> mr. snerdly wrote:
> > All this hot air: "absolutely no credibility ... based on falsehood...
> > utterly false"
> > and then it turns out that most of the dead bodies recovered were
> > Lebanese.
> >
> > What an ... anticlimax.
>
> What is your source that most of the bodies were those of Christian
> Lebanese?

I don't have evidence corroborating Mr. Snerdly's claim, but after a
search on google for about 20 seconds, I found the following:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/10/content_280154.htm
(it is a Chinese news source incorporating the AP report on the event)

While it gives no precise figures on how many people from each nation
were killed or wounded, and concedes to non-Lebanese residents, it
notes that "most of the compound's residents were Lebanese".

Also of interest, the Pakistan Daily Times...

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-11-2003_pg1_1

....listed 17 dead and broked them down as "1 Saudi, 1 Sudanese, and 7
Lebanese, 4 Egyptian and 4 unidentified nationals," citing a Saudi
ministry official as the source. So we can at least the say that
initial reports were in favor of (a) the majority of the people in the
compoud being Lebanese, and (b) the country to have the highest loss of
life was Lebanon.

Second, the World Lebanese Cultural Union apparently depicted the
attack as "the massacre of Riyadh against the Lebanese community". See
for example:

http://www.lebanese4ever.com/newsphp/fullnews.php?id=92
http://clhrf.com/wmu/wlc9.11.03.htm

Also of interest might be the following from the Weekly Standard two
months after the attack:

[------ BEGIN EXCERPT ------]
The November 8 bombing took place in a Lebanese Christian neighborhood
of Riyadh, and of the seven publicly identified Lebanese victims, six
were Christian. Lebanon's newspapers are replete with photographs of
Maronite Catholic and Greek Orthodox victims. Daleel al Mojahid, an al
Qaeda-linked webpage, praised the killing of "non-Muslims." The Middle
East Media Research Institute quotes Abu Salma al Hijazi, reputed to be
an al Qaeda commander, as saying that Saudi characterizations of the
victims as Muslims were "merely media deceit."

[...]

In the Riyadh bombing, al Qaeda once again targeted "infidels." Al
Hijazi claimed that the compound had contained Americans and "Lebanese
Christians who had tortured Muslims . . . during the civil war."

http://www.freedomhouse.org/media/120103tws.htm
[------ END EXCERPT ------]

Now, I'm not claiming that these various sources demonstrate the truth
of Phares' claim, but it should be noted that other sources do point to
the possibility that there is more to this story that what can be
gleaned from CNN. Also, before I close, I know you claim al-Qaida said
it was a mistake (which might be in conflict with some of the claims
made by the Weekly Standard). Can you elaborate?

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